Hacker says they compromised millions of confidential police tips held by US company

A hacker says they have broken into a US platform for searching law enforcement hotline messages and compromised more than 8 million confidential tips.

In a statement posted online, the hacker – who used the name “Internet Yiff Machine” – said they had broken into tip intelligence platform P3 Global Intel, an arm of safety company Navigate360, and stolen 93 gigabytes of data.

The FBI declined comment. Navigate360 said in a statement that it was trying to determine “whether...